By stepping aside, Ms. Rice will allow Mr. Obama to present a full slate of appointees to his national security team as early as next week.
His actual power was probably less absolute than Mr Greenspan's (he held the job for a shorter time, he was less able to dominate a central-bank board full of Reagan appointees, and he had a more fractious relationship with the administration).
As Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the Guardian last week: "What should be [the] WHO's strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees".
"What should be [the] WHO's strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees," said Piot. "They are busy electing a new regional director, and the only hope is that the new director will introduce some radical changes.
When it's been pre-decreed by Bloomberg and Health Commissioner Thomas Farley and the hearing board members are all, well, on board, let alone full of Bloomberg, appointees, then what we have is a theatrical production, not a hearing.
"No one in the Trump administration has done more to harm LGBT people, and especially transgender people, than Jeff Sessions ― and in a government chock full of anti-LGBT appointees, that is saying a lot," McGowan said in a statement.
So far only four low-ranking officials have been sacked by the organisation, which is full of Mr Karzai's appointees.
"Binders Full of Women" — During the second presidential debate, Mr. Romney's description of being handed "binders full of women" who were potential appointees when he was the governor of Massachusetts became an Internet sensation.
The resulting list of appointees, they say, fell far short.
That usually isn't true in the case of appointees.
